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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Check out their book titled Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner published by Corwin. Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

Economic competitors such as India and China, which are among the principal sources of customers for American graduate programs, also have embarked on building sprees at universities of their own, which threaten to keep their students home. . Thomas University Provost Jeremy Moreland. Graduate students at St.

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OPINION: Colleges have to do a better job helping students navigate what comes next

The Hechinger Report

Over 20 years ago, I co-authored the best-selling “ Quarterlife Crisis,” one of the first books to explore the transition from college to the workforce. Such a shift could help facilitate much-needed social and economic mobility, particularly for students who borrow money to attend college. see College Scorecard ).

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.

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Opinion: Our economy is about to meet the childcare cliff — and it will be devastating 

The Hechinger Report

As The Casey Foundation recently highlighted in our 2023 KIDS COUNT ® Data Book , shortcomings of the child care system already cost the country $122 billion a year in lost wages, tax revenue and productivity. averaged $10,600 a year in 2021, according to an analysis by the advocacy organization Child Care Aware.

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. in English from an Ivy League school followed and then a career that more than justified it: 10 years as a professor, author of a well-received book, 15 years leading nonprofit organizations. I am a poster child for the English major.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Related: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic The retention law is not entirely new: A version has been on Tennessee’s books for more than a decade. Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law.

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